Intermediate German: A Grammar and Workbook

Commonly used expressions with darüber, daranetc. Prepositional adverbs (darüber,davonetc.) appear in a number of expres- sions ...

3 Wir freuen uns schon ______ d___ Urlaub. 4 Die Kinder haben sich ______ d___ Geschenk gefreut. 5 Hast du gestern wieder ______ ...

Checklist ✓ 1 What do you need to be aware of when using a verb + preposition construction in German? 2 Can you name the two pre ...

UNIT TEN Unit 10 The present tense The present tense in German The present tense in German is mainly used: to refer to events t ...

Formation of regular and irregular verbs The present tense form of verbs is usually constructed by taking the stem of the infini ...

wir -en gehen kommen geben fahren ihr -t geht kommt gebt fahrt Sie -en gehen kommen geben fahren sie -en gehen kommen geben fahr ...

Other spelling variations When the stem ends in either -d,-t,-mand-nan additional letter -e is added between the stem and the p ...

Exercise 10.1 Indicate which of the irregular verbs in the following list change their stem vowel in the present tense by markin ...

Checklist ✓ 1 Can you list all personal endings of the regular verb hörenin the present tense? 2 Do you remember four patterns o ...

UNIT ELEVEN Unit 11 The present perfect tense Usage in English In English, the present perfect tense is used for past events tha ...

Irregularverbs also usually use haben. The past participles tend to end in-enrather than -tand often undergo a vowel change: E ...

Stem vowel change Many irregular verbs have a stem vowel change: Infinitive Past participle finden→ gefunden found helfen geholf ...

Seid ihr mit dem Auto gefahren? Did you go by car? Jörg ist den ganzen Weg gelaufen. Jörg has run/ran the whole way. There are a ...

Usage with haben Sometimes, the verbs fahrenandfliegenform their present perfect with habenwhen the focus is on the driver or pi ...

Hast du gestern ferngesehen? Did you watch TV last night? Word order In a main clausethe relevant form of habenorseinis the seco ...

For more details on modal verbs in the simple past tense, see Unit 7. For all forms of habenandseinin the simple past tense, se ...

Examples:Ich gehe oft spät ins Bett. →Früher binich nie spät ins Bett gegangen. Er hat jetzt kurze Haare. →Früher hater nie kurz ...

UNIT TWELVE Unit 12 The simple past tense Usage in German The simple past tense in German is usually used in the written languag ...

Note that the above endings are similar to the present tense, with the exception of er/sie/es, which end in -e: Ich machte meine ...

Note that the ichander/sie/esforms have noendings. Ichbliebfür eine Woche in Toronto. I stayed in Toronto for one week. Abendsgi ...